GRE Word List
CHANT
to make melodic sounds with the voice
The meaning of the word chant is to make melodic sounds with the voice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| dynamo | generator |